The quality of the Kelvin connections at the
sense resistor is critical. Verify that the sense
resistor have a temperature coefficient no greater
than 50ppm to minimize current measurement drift
with temperature. Choose the value of the sense
resistor to correspond to the available
overcurrent and short-circuit ranges of the
BQ27Z561-R2 gas gauge. Select the smallest value
possible to minimize the negative voltage
generated on the BQ27Z561-R2 VSS node during a
short circuit. This pin has an absolute minimum of
–0.3V. Use parallel resistors as long as good
Kelvin sensing is established. The device is
designed to support a 1mΩ to 3mΩ sense
resistor.
Directly tie the BAT_SNS to the positive
connection of the battery. Verify that BAT_SNS
does not share a path with the BAT pin.
In reference to the gas gauge circuit the following features require attention for component placement and layout: differential low-pass filter and I2C communication.
The BQ27Z561-R2 gas gauge uses an integrating
delta-sigma ADC for current measurements. Add a
100Ω resistor from the sense resistor to the SRP
and SRN inputs of the device. Place a 0.1μF filter
capacitor across the SRP and SRN inputs. If
required for a circuit, add 0.1µF filter
capacitors for additional noise filtering for each
sense input pin to ground. Place all filter
components as close as possible to the device.
Route the traces from the sense resistor in
parallel to the filter circuit. Adding a ground
plane around the filter network can provide
additional noise immunity.
The BQ27Z561-R2 has an internal LDO that is
internally compensated and does not require an
external decoupling capacitor.
The I2C clock and data pins have
integrated high-voltage ESD protection circuits;
however, adding a Zener diode and series resistor
provides more robust ESD performance. The
I2C clock and data lines have an
internal pulldown. When the gas gauge senses that
both lines are low (such as during removal of the
pack), the device performs auto-offset calibration
and then goes into SLEEP mode to conserve
power.